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Increasingly today, archaeologists are circumventing this problem by a new technique termed accelerator mass spectrometry, which permits radiocarbon dating of tiny samples and thus lets one directly date a single small seed, small bone, or other food residue. In some cases big differences have been found between recent radiocarbon dates based on the direct new methods (which have their own problems) and those based on the indirect older ones.
Jared Diamond (Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (20th Anniversary Edition))
But the death machine had only sampled a vast new source of raw material: the civilians behind the lines. It had not yet evolved equipment efficient to process them, only big guns and clumsy biplane bombers. It had not yet evolved the necessary rationale that old people and women and children are combatants equally with armed and uniformed young men. That is why, despite its sickening squalor and brutality, the Great War looks so innocent to modern eyes.
Richard Rhodes (The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition)
The S&Ls were simultaneously losing money on long-term fixed-rate mortgages, because of inflation, and haemorrhaging deposits to higher-interest money market funds.
Niall Ferguson (The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary Edition)
Some S&Ls bet their depositors’ money on highly dubious projects. Many simply stole it, as if deregulation meant that the law no longer applied to them.
Niall Ferguson (The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary Edition)
the B sample was positive fell on the twentieth anniversary of Perón’s death. They were two figures in whom many Argentinians continued to believe, excusing their faults long after their powers had waned.
Jonathan Wilson (Angels With Dirty Faces: The Footballing History of Argentina)
The Provincial—Before launching broadly, run a test on a very small sample.
Alberto Savoia (Pretotype It—10th Anniversary Edition: How to make sure you are building The Right It before you build It right)